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Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
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Singularity and its effects in the system of criminological knowledge

Архів кримінології та судових наук, 2020
The article is devoted to the study of the singularity phenomenon in the process of criminological analysis of social reality. The main regularities of singularity effects development at the individual and group levels, the specifics of the mentioned ...
Oleksii Lytvynov, Yevheniia Hladkova
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Constraints and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Do Climate Exposure and People's Climate Attention Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between financial constraints and a firm's sustainability performance. Our empirical analysis utilises a panel of 40,445 observations from 9466 listed non‐financial firms across 44 countries, spanning the period from 2002 to 2019.
Boying Xu, Ruth Owusu‐Mensah, Daniel Gyimah   +2 more
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A 2D Clustering Based Hotspot Identification Approach for Spatio-Temporal Crime Prediction

International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
This research introduces a method for predicting where crimes will occur based on clustering activity in the area. Hotspots, or locations with a disproportionately high number of crimes, are located by a combination of spatial and temporal grouping ...
Muhammad Faisal Buland Iqbal, Aman Ullah, Ahmed Alhomoud, Tariq Hussain, Razaz Waheeb Attar, Jianquan Ouyang, Mrim M. Alnfiai, Wesam Atef Hatamleh   +7 more
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Beyond Compliance: The Role of Climate Policy Stringency and Financial Institutions in Cleantech Startup Entry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan, Affan Hameed, Naimat U. Khan, Zafir Ullah Khan   +3 more
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Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Environmental Violation: A Stakeholder Pressure Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicting corporate environmental violations remains a key challenge in practice and in environmental governance research. However, existing studies have largely focused on ex post associations between stakeholder pressures and realized environmental violations, offering limited insight into whether stakeholder pressures can be used ex ante ...
Xiaolan Chen, Ning Ding, Haodong Jin, Rui Xue, Yuhao Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incapacitation and Imprisonment: Prisoners’ Involvement in Community-based Crime. [PDF]

, 2010
The impact of incapacitation on prisoners’ offending behavior is a neglected area of research. The aim of this study was to examine the extent and nature of prisoners’ involvement in community-based crime in the U.K.
Wood, Jane L., Williams, G., James, Mark, Williams, Graham Ross, James, M., Wood, J.   +5 more
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Methodology for crime forecasting.

, 2022
Methodology for crime forecasting.
Tieng Wei Koh (13751576), Fadratul Hafinaz Hassan (11422834), Umair Muneer Butt (13751570), Sukumar Letchmunan (13751573)   +3 more
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Corporate Political Ideology and Environmental Strategy: Evidence From US Toxic Releases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate political ideology shapes firms' environmental strategy and realized environmental performance. Using US political donation data matched to facility‐level toxic releases from the Toxics Release Inventory from 2000 to 2014, we measure corporate ideology by the share of firm and PAC contributions directed to
Mingyuan Chen, Dakshina G. De Silva, Anita R. Schiller, Aurelie Slechten   +3 more
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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